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Sintropa
Labs

Energy-First Superintelligence.

Our mission is to build an energy-first foundation for superintelligence — grounded in thermodynamics, physical gradients, and exergy. Beyond language, into power.

01 — Thesis

Intelligence is not
computation.
It is energy.

Current AI treats intelligence as a software problem — more parameters, more data, more compute. We believe this is a dead end.

Real intelligence emerges from how physical systems convert energy into useful work. Every living organism, every star, every self-organizing system in the universe follows the same principle: maximize the capacity to do future work.

We're building AI systems that operate on this principle — not trained on human text, but engineered from thermodynamic first principles.

Abstract mathematics and physics

02 — Research

Sun and energy
01

Exergy

The portion of energy that can actually do work. We measure intelligence in exergy — not FLOPS.

Cosmos and thermodynamics
02

Thermodynamics

The universal language of change. We model cognition as energy-to-work conversion, not token prediction.

Color gradients
03

Gradients

Systems follow energy gradients — not reward functions. Physics decides. We align with physics.

Resource allocation network
04

Allocation

Where to spend energy to maximize future capacity. The single question every intelligent system must answer.

Nebula deep space

Why physics-first
superintelligence?

  • 01Language models scale by brute force. Thermodynamic systems scale by efficiency — doing more with less energy.
  • 02Current AI has no intrinsic understanding of the physical world. Our systems are built from it.
  • 03Energy is finite. Intelligence that wastes energy cannot sustain itself. Ours optimizes for exergy — real useful work.
  • 04Alignment is not a patch. When intelligence follows physical laws, it is inherently constrained by reality.
  • 05The universe already solved intelligence. Stars, ecosystems, markets — all maximize free energy. We formalize this.

03 — Models

Energy → Capacity

Exergy Flow

Autonomy Curve

"The substrate is the intelligence.
Energy is not a cost. It is the foundation.
Everything else is representation."

Sintropa Foundation — Zug, Switzerland

04 — Contact

Let's talk.

We're looking for researchers, partners, and sovereign investors aligned with our vision of physics-first superintelligence.